The first day of my Juicing fast went better than I had expected. I normally eat 1/3 cup of quick oats, 2tbsp of natural Jiff Peanut butter, and about 3tbsp of raw honey. I seriously look forward to that every day. EVERYDAY. I love it so much that some days I would even eat it twice.
I love me some chocolate! Yeah Buddy<-In my best Pauly D voice. And TMI: my period started later than normal nothing to be alarmed about folks. Being that I started my period the day I started this fast this will be even harder than previously anticipated. So here is how I felt and my thoughts with day 1.
Day 1:
-I woke up with a headache that lasted all day! The juicing didn’t help the headache but I don’t think it made it worst.
-I had a few small slip ups but that was to be expected. And I am not persecuting myself over it.
-I could handle all the juice I made except one. I wrote in yesterday’s post but seriously I sat there nursing that drink for an hour and a half while I tried not to toss my cookies. Mmm cookies sound sooooo good!
- After work I went home and foods that normally wouldn’t catch my eye… caught my eye and boy did everything look good!
- I went to the gym after the baby went to sleep and surprisingly didn’t feel exhausted. We will see if that changes throughout the week.
-TMI: I was in the bathroom most of the day yesterday my stomach calmed down in the late afternoon.
Day 2:
-I feel weaker today. I feel exhausted but that could also be slightly because of my not so great sleep I have gotten the last couple of nights.
-I am chewing gum likes it’s my job today so that is helping with my need to chew on something. My mind doesn’t comprehend that I’m getting food with the juice and not starving it from the lack of chewing.
-I woke up this morning weighed myself and it says I have lost 1lb. I will not be weighing myself again until next week.
-It is quite difficult to get my water intake in. I will be setting an hourly alarm on my phone to help me to remember to drink more.
-My stomach has been growling a lot today.
-yes I had another headache all day!
-I haven't really went to the bathroom if you know what I mean.
I have been wondering how much I am going to lose when this is said and done. I am hoping that I will lose at least 10lbs I’m praying for way more!
After the 7th I will decide what my next step will be with my weight loss. I don’t know if I can physically/mentally withstand a longer fast than 7days or If I want to fast all day except for dinner. I’m going to put some serious thought to all of this.
Day 3:
I went to bed early last night. I went to the chiropractor for the first time ever yesterday it left me feeling so relaxed and amazing. I finally got a good night’s sleep and woke up wait for it… Headache free!!!
Last night has got to be the worst part of this whole experience. My entire family (2 kids, JD, and the hubs) were all eating Braum’s meals with ice cream. The hubs and C shared a double bacon cheeseburger with all the fixins’ that looked like it had dropped straight from heaven with large fries and a big banana split. Even though I’m not a fan of banana splits yuck! but at this point it looked delicious. JD and his daughter shared a large chicken strip dinner and also had a banana split. They ate while we watched a movie and I sat there and ate a single scoop cone. I call that a WIN! I could have easily eaten double what they had each but I didn’t.
I don’t have cravings like I anticipated. I was afraid that with aunt flow visiting and my fasting I would be how I was when I was pregnant. Let me give you the short but sweet version of Prego Lachele. I wasn’t moody or hateful like the cliché warns everyone. I was normal me with more crying. I cried over everything. Everything… And not like watching the PETA commercials I mean I was crying because I was scared that my bun n the oven wouldn’t have all of her fingers and toes and kids would make fun of her. I was crying because I couldn’t keep food down and if I could I couldn’t eat much. at. all. I would cry when the doctor would reschedule my appointments. But when a craving happened I would do almost anything to get that said food. If I wanted some raw cookie dough with milk ooooh that sounds magical it better be in my hands in a couple minutes or I was going to hurt someone.
I opted for a rest day and stayed in as a big happy family we watched the movieThis is the End. My review of the movie?!? It was just ok. There were a lot of drug use, the movie had mainly big names in it, inappropriate jokes this one I usually find funny, just the timing of the jokes and overall acting I was not into. I give it two thumbs down. It had a good message at the end but it took 1hr and 40minutes to get to that message.
I have been trying to decide what my next meal will be. I will be ending this fast on October 7th and that conveniently is our 3year dating anniversary what you don’t celebrate that too? I have read several articles that say you aren’t supposed to eat bad after the cleanse…but what I say is I’m celebrating actually finishing this cleanse and our anniversary so I’m eating whatever the fuck my stomach will allow!
A few thoughts today:
-I feel slimmer today than I have in the last few weeks.
-I’m wondering if I’m actually going to lose any weight with this fast or cleanse or whatever you want to call it.
-If I don’t lose weight like when I did the Advocare cleanse in April of this year will I ever do another cleanse? I don’t want to keep spending money and putting my body through withdrawals from food if I don’t get anything out of it. Does that make sense?
-I was going to take a picture of every juice I drink but honestly none of them look appetizing. They all look like things that are sometimes in my child's diaper. 😝
-I was going to post recipes but honestly I just throw a little bit of everything in each one and I make 5-6 a day so that gets tough to remember what I put in each one.
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